Resources

These Anglican resources help to ground us in time and tradition. They are tools for expansiveness and invitations to beauty.

What Is Anglicanism?

Anglicanism is a worldwide body of Christians responding to God’s revelation through Jesus Christ. Anglicanism brings together the authority of the Bible, the historic faith, and the beauty of structured prayer. It is rooted in tradition, yet contemporary in practice. It is united in substance, yet diverse in expression. We are a global family living out our faith in local communities.

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The Church Year (Liturgical Calendar)

From earliest times the Church has gathered on Sundays to celebrate the good news of Jesus Christ. Over time an annual cycle of Christian memory-making has also developed, which allows us to remember his life, death, and resurrection; to celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit; and to recall the ministry of the holy people who have spread the Christian faith over the centuries. 

The liturgical or Church year is divided into several seasons. It begins with Advent, which looks forward to Christmas. The visit of the wise men to Jesus is remembered at Epiphany, after which there is a period of ‘ordinary time’. The six weeks of Lent prepare us for Easter, which celebrates Jesus’s resurrection, leading forward to his Ascension and the gift of the Holy Spirit to the Church at Pentecost. ‘Ordinary time’ then resumes until the end of the year.

A Video Guide to Anglican Liturgy (Instructed Holy Eucharist)

There are many components to Anglican Liturgy. An “Instructed Eucharist” provides framing for each part of the Liturgy. Note: This is not what a typical worship service looks like.

Tools for Anglican Devotion

  • The Book of Common Prayer 2019 (pdf download)

    The Book of Common Prayer (2019) is a form of prayers and praises that is thoroughly Biblical, catholic in the manner of the early centuries, highly participatory in delivery, peculiarly Anglican and English in its roots, culturally adaptive and missional in a most remarkable way, utterly accessible to the people, and whose repetitions are intended to form the faithful catechetically and to give them doxological voice.

  • The Daily Office: Morning and Evening Prayer, with Noon Prayer and Compline (dailyoffice2019.com)

    Daily Morning Prayer and Daily Evening Prayer are the established rites (offices) by which, both corporately and individually, God’s people annually encounter the whole of the Holy Scriptures, daily confess their sins and praise Almighty God, and offer timely thanksgivings, petitions, and intercessions. You are encouraged to join with Christians around the world in praying with the Church, at any time or in any place you may find yourself. It makes it easy to pray daily morning, midday, evening, and compline (bedtime) prayer without flipping pages, searching for scripture readings or calendars, or interpreting rubrics. The prayers are presented from The Book of Common Prayer (2019) of the Anglican Church in North America and reflect the ancient patterns of daily prayer Christians have used since the earliest days of the church.

Anglican Catechism

The catechism (a text used for the instruction of Christian disciples) is a resource manual for the renewal of Anglican catechetical practice, with a focus on Scripture, the basics of Christian faith, the Sacraments, the Ten Commandments, and the Lord’s Prayer.

Podcasts

These podcasts will help you get closer to the heart of the Anglican tradition:

The Anglican International Communion (Global South)

The Global South Fellowship of Anglican Churches (GSFA), formerly known as Global South (Anglican), is a communion of 25 Anglican churches, of which 22 are provinces of the Anglican Communion, plus the Anglican Church in North America and the Anglican Church in Brazil. The Anglican Diocese of Sydney is also officially listed as a member.

Anglican Initiatives

Here are some examples of the missional work Anglicans do in North America and around the world: